bedchamber quotes

I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England.

- Lady Hillingdon
   Journal entry. Quoted in  J Gathorne-Hardy  The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny (1972), ch.3. The phrase is often rendered 'Lie back and think of England'.